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5. All-New, All-Different Team

As the flagship book of the all-new Marvel NOW!, we were gifted with an all-star Avengers lineup.

And one specifically unlike any previous team, mostly due to who held the mantle at the time. Tony Stark is Iron Man, but we also get the Sam Wilson/Captain America and the Jane Foster/Thor. Plus old favorites like the Vision and new recruits like Ms. Marvel, Nova, and Miles Morales/Spider-Man. It’s a refreshing blend of old and new that works together impressively well.

A lot of people flipped their s**t over this lineup, because it didn’t use the classic versions of these characters, but I think these versions make for a more interesting team. It’s a squad that’s constantly in flux. Nova, Ms. Marvel, and Spider-Man are all young and easily swayed, and not sure who to trust. Iron Man is newly simplified and making efforts in new directions. Thor is struggling with her own mortality for the first time. Captain America is growing into the identity and trying to figure out what it means. And a morally questionable Vision still going through the horrors of the Tom King series.

It’s a great team who all have their own thing going on.